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| What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it. | C. J. Weber | |
| There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. | C. M. Ward | |
| No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed. | C. M. Ward | |
| Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person. | C. Neil Strait | |
| Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills. | C. Neil Strait | |
| Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness. | C. Neil Strait | |
| Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others. | C. Neil Strait | |
| Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening. | C. Neil Strait | |
| Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. | C. Northcote Parkinson | 1909-1993, British Historian, Political Scientist |
| Delay is the deadliest form of denial. | C. Northcote Parkinson | 1909-1993, British Historian, Political Scientist |
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| Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase ''It is the busiest man who has time to spare.'' | C. Northcote Parkinson | 1909-1993, British Historian, Political Scientist |
| Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. | C. O. Jackson | |
| I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival? | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ''Thy will be done,'' and those to whom God says, ''All right, then, have it your way.'' | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that morn.'' | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
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| Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
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| Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
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| The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling. | C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist |
| Man is the principal syllable in Management. | C. T. Mckenzie | |
| If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him. | C. T. Studd | |
| Everything can be improved. | C. W. Barron | |
| Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. | C. W. Ceran | |
| Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance. | C. W. Wendte | |
| The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. | C. Wright Mills | 1916-1962, American Sociologist |
| America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social centre, the political capital, and the financial hub. | C. Wright Mills | 1916-1962, American Sociologist |
| In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. | C. Wright Mills | 1916-1962, American Sociologist |
| The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. | C. Wright Mills | 1916-1962, American Sociologist |
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